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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-09-15 07:13|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Critics are calling the media scandal over the Jerry Killian forgeries "Rathergate." But to thousands of Vietnam veterans, the real Rathergate took place 16 years ago when Dan Rather successfully foisted a fraud onto the American people. Then, unlike now, there was no blogosphere to expose him.

Wow! No wonder he didn't back down. He is and always has been Jason Blair. Weird.

This isn't the first time he's been caught - it's just the first time he's been exposed.
Posted by 2B 2004-09-15 9:49:51 AM||   2004-09-15 9:49:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dan Rather is a liberal cheerleader and an embarrassment.

Couple that with 60 Minutes having a Kerry fundraiser and member of his campaign staff come on and smear Bush (Ben the savings and loan scandal Barnes) and you get the idea that CBS is actually a 527 for Kerry.

This is really low and I hope someone actually has the guts to force this issue and get CBS tarred for violating their FCC licenses.
Posted by SOG475 2004-09-15 9:54:55 AM||   2004-09-15 9:54:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Word is that CBS is releasing some sort of statement at noon EST - this oughta be good...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-09-15 10:28:58 AM||   2004-09-15 10:28:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We did not have sex with that woman...

oh wait...

I'm guessing it will be something along the lines of the NYT headline:

Documents Fake, but Content is Real!

and then they will toss in a good measure of:

Don't you know who We are!!!
Posted by 2B 2004-09-15 10:38:46 AM||   2004-09-15 10:38:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey! They looked real to me, all right?!
God, I'll be drinking early again today...
Posted by Dan Rather 2004-09-15 12:02:40 PM||   2004-09-15 12:02:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Interesting point made by a lawyer on one of the blogs. If CBS admits the docs were forged, then CBS can't protect the confidentiality of its sources.

Who are they protecting? Robin Rather (Dan's daughter, a Democratic pol in Austin)? Barnes is dumb enough but not young enough to have done the forgery. No one who remembers the IBM Selectric would have come up with this; has to be someone under 40.
Posted by lex 2004-09-15 12:07:59 PM||   2004-09-15 12:07:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 37 minutes until CBS's announcement. Delayed from Noon EDT.
Posted by eLarson 2004-09-15 2:52:18 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-09-15 2:52:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm curious to hear what they've got to say. It is nearly 3pm EST and nothing from CBS. One can only wonder what is going on, for it is easy to tell the truth but very hard to spin a set of consistent lies.
Posted by Brutus 2004-09-15 2:58:42 PM|| [http://indefense.blogspot.com/]  2004-09-15 2:58:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Delay is a good indicator that at best the lawyers are really wordsmithing this release.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-15 3:00:09 PM||   2004-09-15 3:00:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Dan's probably putting up a struggle as they try to pull him towards the open 50th story window...
Posted by tu3031 2004-09-15 3:01:29 PM||   2004-09-15 3:01:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 It's weird. The best defense would be to out the forger. Unless the forger's very close to either Kerry or a CBS honcho.

But what sane adult who knows anything about the competitive MSM would have thought that CBS's rivals would not attack CBS on this?

If this came from Kerry's people then the nation is in worse shape then anyone could have guessed. We need a rational and decent opposition in this country. Bad for democracy when one party is so colossally incompetent.
Posted by lex 2004-09-15 3:04:35 PM||   2004-09-15 3:04:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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